Idea 75: Exercise your imagination

Situation 1

Imagine you are climbing Everest by yourself and without oxygen. You are 1,000 metres from the summit.

(a) Sit down and make a meal for yourself. Work through each of your five senses to complete the scene in your mind.

(b) You are now pressing on to the summit. What can you see? What are you touching? What are your feelings? What colours can you see?

(c) Now you are on the summit. You have a camera with you. Set it up on a rock. Stand back. Now compose in detail the photograph you have taken. Turn it into a three-dimensional picture.

Situation 2

A new creature has been discovered in the jungles of South America that is destined to replace the dog and the cat as our most popular domestic pet. ...

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